Bill of Health
DECEMBER 22, 2022
This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. Because twice, doctors told members of my family that due to brain injury, I was about to die. Next thing I remember I woke up in a hospital, where for six days I had been unconscious. He still remembers the Nevada doctors telling him I would probably die.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
As an emergency medicine resident at a large academic hospital in Los Angeles, I see how incarcerated patients’ suffering is sanctioned by hospitals and medical professionals, despite their pledge to do no harm. Because his vital signs were stable, he did not have to be admitted to the hospital. It is human made.
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Compliancy Group
JUNE 17, 2022
Use of Tracker by Hospitals Likely Violates HIPAA. An investigation by The Markup and Stat has uncovered a tracking tool used by 33 of the country’s top 100 hospitals that collects patients’ protected health information (PHI) and sends it to Facebook—including details about medical conditions, prescriptions, and physician appointments.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
One is the philosophical principle of autonomy, which I regularly teach in my bioethics class. Almost a full week after the accident occurred, I woke up in a Phoenix hospital. Some doctors thought I would have to spend my life in a rehabilitation unit, learning to think again, but never fully recovering.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 1, 2022
A line between bodily autonomy and state’s rights, a line between the doctor-patient relationship and the law. In a post- Roe world, we are forcing doctors to practice non-evidence based medicine without any room for recourse. Something is distinctly different about this time.
Health Populi
AUGUST 13, 2021
We demonstrated in the pandemic that we could be agile, reconfiguring hospitals quickly, moving patients and staff because we had to. ” The hospital of the future is not the hospital of 2019. What is the hospital of the future look like? What is the doctor of the future? Be agile and flexible.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Recent research provides further support: when Yale New Haven Hospital tested clinicians on staff who were seventy and older, it found that almost 13% had significant cognitive deficits. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
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